Brian Betham Schofield
Brian Betham Schofield (* 1895 , † 1984 ) was a British naval officer and author of military history.
Life
Schofield became a midshipman in 1913 and participated in World War I, where he participated in the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915. He later became a naval attaché in The Hague and from 1939 to 1940 in Brussels . From 1945 to 1946 he was the captain of HMS King George V , the flagship of the Home Fleet . He retired as Vice Admiral in 1950 and published several military history works. Some of them are also available in German.
Works
- The Royal Navy today (Oxford University Press, 1960)
- The Russian convoys (BT Batsford, London, 1964)
- British sea power; naval policy in the twentieth century (Batsford, London, 1967)
- The rescue ships (William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1968), with Louis Frederic Martyn
- The loss of the Bismarck (Allan, Shepperton, 1972)
- The attack on Taranto (Allen, London, 1973)
- Operation Neptune (Allan, London, 1974)
- The Arctic convoys (Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1977)
- Navigation and direction. The story of HMS Dryad (K Mason, Havant, 1977)
German
- Convoy battles in the hell of the North Sea (Heyne, Munich, 1983)
- The downfall of BISMARCK: risk, triumph and tragedy (Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994)
- The jump over the canal - company "Neptune" The Allied landing in Normandy (Motorbuch Verlag, 1972)
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SURNAME | Schofield, Brian Betham |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British naval officer and military historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |